Example sentences of "was [verb] do the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weekend of 13/14 March was used to do the cut over and to ensure that everything was in full working order . |
| 2 | If she was going to do the job at all , professional pride demanded she do it properly and , for hair as thick and luxuriant as his , ‘ just chopping a bit off ’ would n't do at all . |
| 3 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |
| 4 | Now the last thing says labels code four , you 'll remember from the monthly card , I have these eight days where I was going to do the labels . |
| 5 | I was going to do the tabloiding then they fired Peter Cole . |
| 6 | He was asked to do the music for Frontenac 's libretto … . ’ |
| 7 | The new head of Soviet state television and radio , Leonid Kravchenko , says he was appointed to do the president 's bidding and thinks his job is to ensure that state television does not criticise the state . |
| 8 | The main reason that I was allowed to do the research was , I learned later , because their press was so bad the Moonies could not believe that someone who would listen to what they said could possibly come up with worse stories than those already in the media . |
| 9 | To the contrary , by bringing the Bank officially to the centre of policy-making while leaving the nature of the membership of its Court and the pattern of its recruitment largely unchanged , the Bank was allowed to do the capturing . |
| 10 | She 's since sung Pamina , Zerlina and Despina under Barenboim in Paris and , before the axe fell on the conductor 's brief reign at the Bastille , was to have done the three Da Ponte pieces with him and Patrice Chereau . |
| 11 | Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf . |
| 12 | he was trying to do the splits , show Martin how you do the look , look , look , yeah , he come up to me and said hold my hand , right , now do try to do the splits |
| 13 | And the handout I 've got here which I could n't tie in just now when I was trying to do the deduction is because the rates are very slightly different . |
| 14 | She had no personal ambition but was determined to do the best for her causes . |